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Post by feanaromithrandir on Mar 15, 2004 17:34:04 GMT -5
OK, I'm going to type up what it has about Elves, LOL this is gona take a while....Keep the requests for info coming.
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Post by feanaromithrandir on Mar 15, 2004 17:45:40 GMT -5
Elves - In the very hour that Varda, the Lady of the Heavens, rekindled the bright Stars above Middle-Earth, the Childern of Eru awoke by the Mere of Cuiviénen, the "water of awakening". These people were the Quendi, who are called Elves, and when they came into being the first thing that they preceived was the light of the new stars. So it is that of all things, Elves love starlight best and worship Varda, whom they know as Elentári, Queen of the Stars, over all Valar. And further, when the new light entered the yes of the Elves in that awakening moment, it was held there, so tha ever after it shone from those eyes. Thus Eru, the One, whom the Earthborn know as Ilúvatar, created the fairest race that was ever made and the wisest. Ilúvatar declared that Elves would have and make more beauty than any earthly creatures and they would posses the greatest happiness and deepes sorrow. They would be immortal and ageless, so they might live as long as the Earth lived. They would never know sickness and pestilence, but their bodies would be like the Earth in substance and could be destroyed. They could be slain with fire or steel in war, be murdered, and even die of great grief. Their size would be the same as that of Men who were still to be created, but Elves would be stronger in spirit and limb, and would not grow weak with age, only wiser and more fair...
I will continue tomorrow, this isn't even half of whats here on Elves lol it will take a few more posts, any questions about this part? Now's your chance.
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Post by Elrohir on Mar 15, 2004 17:48:26 GMT -5
Cool sounds pretty interesting to me. ;D
Good to know that we are the most privaleged race in Middle Earth. ;D
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Post by feanaromithrandir on Mar 15, 2004 18:08:05 GMT -5
Want me just to continue?
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Post by Elrohir on Mar 16, 2004 11:55:10 GMT -5
Yes please, i need to know as much as i can about elves if im going to be one ;D
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Post by feanaromithrandir on Mar 16, 2004 16:43:09 GMT -5
Elves (continued) - Though far lesser beings in stature and might than the god-like Valar, Elves share the nature of those powers more than the Secondborn race of Men do. It is said that Elves always walk in a light that is like the glow of the Moon, just below the rim of the Earth. Their hair is like spun gold or woven silver or polished jet, and starlight glimmers all about them, on their hair, eyes, silken clothes and jewelled hands. There is always light on the Elven face, and the sound of their voice is various and beautiful and subtle as water. Of all their arts they excel best in speech, song and poetry. Elves were the first of all people on Earth to speak with voices and no earthly creature before them sang. And justly they call themselves the Quendi, the "speakers", for they taught the spoken arts to all races on Earth. In the First Age of Starlight, after the Fall of Utummo and the defeat of Melkor the Dark Enemy, the Valar called the Elves to the Undying Lands of the West. This was before the rising of the Sun and the Moon, when only the Stars lit Middle-Earth, and the Valar wished to protect the Elves from the darkness and the lurking evil that Melkor had left behind...
I think that will do for today, I might carry on if I'm bored but if not I will continue tomorrow (it's good to see a few people reading this ;D I'm not just typing it for no reason.)
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Post by feanaromithrandir on Mar 17, 2004 18:29:22 GMT -5
Elves (continued...again) - And so, in the Undying Lands which lie beyond the seas of the West, the Valar prepeared a place named Eldemar, meaning "elvenhome", where it was foretold that in time the Elves would build cities with domes of silver, streets of gold and stairs of crystal. In this way the Elves were first divided, for not all the Elves people wished to leave Middle-Earth and enter the Eternal Light of the Undying Lands. At the bidding of the Valar a great number went to the West, and these were called the Eldar, the "people of the stars", but the others stayed for love of starlight and were called the Avari, the "unwilling". Thought they were skilled in the ways of nature and, like their kindred, were imortal, they were lesser people. They mostly remained in the eastern lands where the power of Melkor was greatest and so they dwindled. The Eldar were also known as the People of the Great Journey for they had travelled westwards across the pathless lands of Middle-Earth towards the Great Sea for many years....
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Post by manwe on Mar 21, 2004 9:23:31 GMT -5
^not the facts about the elves^
I beleive, in Feanaros books the lot of it is SPAM.
^not the facts about elves^
That is cool. I think i now have a bulging brain with the facts about the Elves. Could you now tell us some stuff about the Valar and Valinor?
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Post by Elrohir on Mar 21, 2004 11:25:26 GMT -5
^not the facts about the elves^ I beleive, in Feanaros books the lot of it is SPAM. ^not the facts about elves^ What did you mean by that? If you mean to say that all of Feanaros writing up was spam then your wrong. But you might not mean that, so im not going to accuse you of course.
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Post by manwe on Mar 21, 2004 12:54:40 GMT -5
What did you mean by that? If you mean to say that all of Feanaros writing up was spam then your wrong. But you might not mean that, so im not going to accuse you of course. No, i mean the other writing by you two. Now lets stay on topic before this "becomes to much spamming". I understand how people could have gotten the wrong end of the stick it wasnt very clear. I want to know more about Valinor and the Valor. Dont hear much about them these days.
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Post by Elrohir on Mar 22, 2004 3:51:32 GMT -5
Ohhh ok, i understand what you mean now.
yes, you dont hear anything about the Valor, plus i dont know anything about it anyway, so please post some info on that.
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Post by manwe on Mar 23, 2004 13:49:48 GMT -5
I have been reading the Silmarillion and i want to no about Huan. I think thats his name.
All i know is he was the hound of the Valar and and died fighting a Wolve thing that ate 1 of the Silmarils. And that he beat back Sauron in wolve form.
Thats all i know, could you add, if you can.
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Post by feanaromithrandir on Mar 23, 2004 14:16:58 GMT -5
Well I'm leaving so I guess I can't.
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Post by Elrohir on Mar 23, 2004 14:35:21 GMT -5
Hang on, didnt you say that you were staying after all?
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Post by manwe on Mar 25, 2004 13:29:19 GMT -5
Well, now hes left, so i will close this thread. If anyone gets this book, then PM me and ill re-open it.
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